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G. A. WEBER. RAIL JOINT.

No. 605,265. Patented June 7,1898.

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GEORGE A. WEBER, OE yNEW YORK, N. Y.

RAIL-JOINT...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 605,265, dated J' une 7, 1898. Application filed November 5, 1897i Serial No. 657,586. (No model.)

To all whowt t may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WEBER, o

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention embraces means for joining the contiguous ends of two adjacent rails comprisedin `a car-track and which are of different sizes or weights, as it is technically expressed.

I will describe a rail-joint wherein are embodied the featuresof my invention, and then express the novelty in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a finished joint. Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a horizontal longitudinal section through the joint. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a fish-plate embodied in.

the invention. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-section through a rail and parts embodied in the invention adjacent to the end of the rail.

Similar letters of reference designate corre.- sponding parts in all figures.

A A represent the adjacent ends of two rails diering in size oriweight and forming a portion of a car-track.`

Rails differing in weight varyl generally. in height, and it is the purpose of the present invention to afford a means for joining the ends of such rails which shall give a secure joint and which will also bring the upper surfaces of the said rails in line witheach other.

The end sections of the rails A A' rest upon a rail-chair B, having a horizontalbearingplate b and an upwardly extending boltholding flange b. The chair will preferably be supplied with an outwardly-extending lip b2. The bearing-plate. b is stepped, or, in

other words, it is provided with two bearingsurfaces in different planes, the vertical distance between which is equal to the difference in height of the two rails A A. rails are in place their upper running-surfaces will be true or in line with 'each other.

The means for securing the rail ends to the chair and to each other comprise side or fish plates C C'. that when the inner flanges of two contiguous rails are in alinement diiferences in relative positions of the webs, vthe feet, and heads or Thus when the These fish-plates are madeso` niiangeswill be compensated for` byvdiiferenoes in depth and thickness of the sh-plate. The fish-plates may be made to bear snugly against the faces of the webs of two contiguous rails, or they may be hollowed, so as to bear only at the top and bottom. By these means a seweights and one which insures the inner face of the heads of such railsbeing kept in perfect alinement.

The fish-plate C, adjacent to the bolt-supporting flange b of the rail-chair, is channeled or recessedlongitudinally on its outer surface, as shown at c, into whichiits a packing or washer strip Cshaped to fit the recess in `fish-plate C. `This strip is clamped against the flange b' and the several parts firmly scoured together by :means of bolts C3.

Having described my invention, what I consider as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-V

ferencesinpositin Of'the remaining parts when the inner faces of the heads of `said rails are iny alinement, VA'substantially as, speciied. 2, The combination of a rail-chair having a bolt-holding flange and a stepped bearing or` rail-supporting surfaceV upon which the ends of the rails rest, fish-plates and fastening-bolts, said fish-plates being adapted to compensatefordifferences in position of the railsA when in position on* the chair, substantially as speciiied.

3. The combination with a support for two rail ends having integral portions forming bearing-surfaces in different planes and with a bolt-holding iiange at one edge thereof, fishplates for securing the ends of the rails to gether and adapted to compensate for differences of position of the rail ends when the inner faces of the heads of, said `rails are in alinement, one of said fish-platesbeing adapted' to have its edges .bear against the boltholding flange, substantially as specified.

4. '.Theco'mbination of a rail-chair having a bolt-holding flange and a stepped bearing or rail-'supporting surface, upon which the cure joint is made between` rails of differing j Y l. In combination witha support for two I IOO ends of the rails rest, fish-plates adopted to In testimony whereof I have signed my compensate for dierences in position of the name to this specification in the presence of rails when in position on the chair, a, packtwo subscribing Witnesses. Y

ing or washer strip interposed between the GEORGE A. WEBER. 5 bolt-holding flange and the adjacent iish- Vitnesses: plate, and fastening-bolts, substantially as LAIRD GOLDSBOROUGH,

described. ERNEST HoPKINsoN. 

